DOBLEMAN, JOSEPH A., SR.
On June 21, 2007, Age 59 of Gloucester City, formerly of Mt. Ephraim, NJ. Devoted father of Nancy M.(Geoff) Cox, and Joseph A. Jr. (Debbie). Loving grand father of Samantha, Marissa, Dana, Devin, Ryan. Dear brother of William, Edward, David, Mark and the late John, Elizabeth, and Richard. Also mother of his children Rose Dobleman. Dear uncle of 21 nieces and nephews especially, Tina, John and Nikolas.
Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend his viwing Tuesday from 9:30 am until 11am at the
MAHAFFEY-MILANO
FUNERAL HOME
11 E. Kings Hwy.
Mt. Ephraim, NJ
PH: 856-931-1628.
Funeral service on Tuesday 11:00 am at the funeral home. Interment Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro, NJ. Family request in lieu of flowers donnations may be sent to: Breaststop.org. Expression of sympathy and condolences may be sent to
www.milanofuneral home.com

CONN, STEPHEN W.
On June 20, 2007, age 64, of Westmont, (formerly of South Philadelphia). Loving husband of Terry (nee Cautilli) Conn.
Devoted father of Michele Bishop, Jennifer DeStefano (Joseph) and Stephanie Turck (Timothy). Beloved brother of Diane Radzavage. Also survived by 10 grandchildren; Helena, Ashley, Michele, Stephanie, Joseph, Hannah, Mary, Timmy, Domenic, and Christian.
Steve proudly served in the US Navy. He became a Philadelphia Police Officer in 1969, and later worked in Phila. District Attorney\’s Office, retiring as Acting Chief of the Complaints Unit in 1996. He was a longtime member of the Phila. F.O.P #5.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Funeral Mass, Monday 11am at the Church of the Holy Saviour, 50 Emerald Ave, Westmont, where a viewing will be held from 9:30am til time of Mass. Interment Sts. Peter & Paul Cemetery, Springfield, PA.
The family requests memorial contributions to Samaritan Hospice,5 Eves Drive, Suite 300, Marlton, NJ 08053. Arrangements by BLAKE-DOYLE FUNERAL HOME, Collingswood.

HACK

Scott Michael

Suddenly, On June 21, 2007. Age 29. Of Mount Ephraim. Formerly of Audubon.

Loving and devoted father of Skyla Mae Ellenbark-Hack of Deptford. Beloved Son of Kathy R. Hack (nee Frank) of Mount Ephraim (Ron Gonzales) and Joseph P. Hack, Sr. of Florida. Dear Grandson of the late Bernard D. Frank and Hazel Ruth (nee Laute). Devoted brother of Michelle Meade (nee Hack) (Daniel) of Philadelphia, Joseph P. Hack, Jr. of Mount Ephraim, Andrea Gonzales of Collingswood and Andrew Gonzales of Mount Ephraim. Loving uncle of Danny, Riley, Kylee and Anthony.

Scott attended Audubon High School and resided in Audubon. He recently lived in Mount Ephraim and has worked as an account executive for Maxum Expo Services, LLC. Since 2003, Scott worked very hard for Maxum Expo which is owned by his cousins, Peggy and Joe Maxwell. Scott liked to travel and absolutely cherished his time with his daughter, Skyla.

Relatives, friends and employees of Maxum Expo Services are kindly invited to attend his viewing on Tuesday morning from 10 am to 12 Noon at the McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street (at Brown Street) Gloucester City. Lutheran Religious Service 12:30 pm in the funeral home officiated by Pastor Dave Oppold of Spirit of Hope Lutheran Church, Mount Ephraim. Interment New Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Bellmawr.

There will be no evening viewing. Family requests no flowers for the viewing. Instead, memorial donations are preferred to the benefit of Skyla M. Ellenbark-Hack: 180 North Black Horse Pike, Bellmawr, New Jersey 08031. Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to the family through our funeral home website www.mccannhealey.com under online obituaries of Scott Michael Hack.

The Philly Bridge……. Walt Whitman Bridge connects South Philadelphia to Gloucester City, New Jersey, across the Delaware River.
Photos from Eye Captain – http://www.flickr.com/photos/77945684@N00/

Commentary By Hank F. Miller Jr. (Hank is a former resident of Gloucester City who lives in Japan)  Here\’s a Tip! You don\’t deserve one, pal.  The only woman who has ever chased me was a willowy Japanese waitress who trailed me half a block from her restaurant door.\”Sir, \”she panted, \”I\’m sorry…but you forgot your change!\”Oh…So I waltzed off 100 yen richer. About 93 cents. Mean while the waitress got-besides 40 meters of exercise-was my sincere gratitude. Speed up the clock and tilt the world, and lo and behold this past week we were on our way in transit at the air port in San Francisco, California, I found myself chased again … this time by a waiter. \”Sir!\” he wheezed. He held my bill in his hand.\”I\’m sorry…but your tip was insufficient!\” Now-the truth be known-sometimes I do stretch facts. And when that gets dull, at other times I make things up. But this time I cross my foreigner\’s heart and swore on a stack of alien registration cards: The man followed me because I had tipped less than 15 percent.  I had left that smaller amount on purpose.Oh, the service had been OK and so had the food. Yet my meal arrived 15 minutes late, during which time I mostly sat and watched my wife suck crab legs. Yet…that was not my reason either. In all the endless vacation tipping of cab drivers, baggage handlers and so on, I had graded not a single effort as out of the ordinary, and none of it as meriting extra money. I was fed up, and this waiter was the unlucky fellow to learn this. My wife fidgeted. As Japanese, she craves one basic thing\”harmony.She eyed me to pay the man, especially with passersby nudging their children and saying, \”Hey, kids, look at the cheapskate!\”But I declined, and the waiter mumbled his way back to the restaurant. I walked off a few bucks richer, yet not without pangs of guilt. People say the gap between Japan and the United States grows closer everyday. Japanese gobble cheeseburgers. Americans sleep on futons=quilts for sleeping on the floor. Japanese girls mimic the hair style of Britney Spears. American boys imitate the batting style of Ichiro Suzuki. Who knows…one day both nations might be nothing but one giant Starbucks-lined shopping mall of video arcades, clothing stores and a dollar/100 yen shops.  With the single difference being that on one side of the ocean, consumers will tip and on the other side of the ocean, they won\’t.Hopefully, that will never change. Or if it does, it will change for the better…meaning America will go cold turkey on the gratuity kick.\”You\’re just a tightwad, \”says my wife.\”A tightwad from Bumpkin city, where people only know two kinds of service: Self and buffet.\” And for that helpful comment, I decided to give her 15 percent of my mind. At times, the American service industry might more accurately be called the \’serve less\’ industry.   Warm Regards From Kitakyushu City, Japan

Success in sports can be measured in many ways. Wins and losses, standings, improvement, and a wide range of various statistics help us. At Rider University, the successful 2006-2007 academic school year is being measured by grade point average.

During the spring of 2007, the semester grade point average for all Rider student-athletes was a best-ever 3.04, compared to the 2.96 grade point average for Rider’s non-student-athlete population. 55 percent of Rider’s student-athletes received a 3.0 or better grade point average and 14 of the 20 squads had a team grade point average at 3.00 or above. \”We are extremely proud of the academic performance of our teams,\” said Don Harnum, Rider Director of Athletics. \”It is a credit to our coaches for recruiting quality student-athletes, to the efforts of the students, and a testament to the dedication of everyone involved in the area of academic support at Rider.\”

Rider’s male athletes compiled their best semester GPA ever last spring with a 2.91. Not to be out-done, 66 percent of Rider’s female athletes compiled a 3.0 or better, giving the women a 3.17 GPA as a group, the second best semester ever at Rider.

The women’s swimming & diving team compiled its best semester grade point average ever (3.32) after placing second of 10 teams at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships and third of 16 teams at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships.

\”One of the goals we set each year is to be recognized by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America for academics,\” said Rider head swimming & diving coach Steve Fletcher, \”and our women really responded to that challenge.\” The Rider women earned the highest of the three levels of the Academic All-America team award presented by the CSCAA.

In all, 87 Rider student-athletes earned MAAC All-Academic Team honors (3.2 or better, no freshmen) for the 2006-07 academic school year. Outside of the MAAC, eleven members of the field hockey team were named to the 2006 National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division I National Academic Squad, and as a team the Broncs were one of 48 teams honored for having a 3.0 or better grade point average. Junior wrestler T. J. Morrison, a three-time national qualifier, was honored by the National Wrestling Coaches Association for his high grade point average, as one of 57 wrestlers nationally to be named to the NWCA All-Academic team.

\”We are proud of T.J. for his efforts in the classroom,\” said associate head coach John Hangey. \”T.J. is the true definition of a student-athlete and is the type of young man any team could build a program around. Being named an Academic All American, T.J. proves that you can be a great student and one of the best wrestlers in the entire nation at your weight at the same time.\”

Rider’s Student Transitional Education Program (STEP) provides individual and group tutoring, as well as study tables, coordinates progress reports and monitors the student-athlete’s academic progress, while providing workshops on such topics as library skills, test taking and note taking. It appears to be working.

\”For both the men and women, there was a dramatic decline in the percentage of student-athletes with a semester GPA below 2.0,\” said Dr. Jonathan Husch, Rider’s Faculty Athletics Representative. \”I believe this is strong evidence to the ongoing efforts of all Department of Athletics academic support personnel in assisting our academically at-risk student-athletes. They include (Associate Athletic Director) Greg Busch, (Academic Support Coordinator) Sonya Hurt, (Director of Rider Learning Center) Kendall Friedman, the coaches, and the entire staff of the University’s Education Enhancement Program.\”

 \”Our student-athletes work really hard on and off the field and it shows,\” said Hurt. \”The success of our student-athletes in the classroom speaks volumes about the homework our coaches do when recruiting the best students for Rider University. I applaud our student-athletes and coaches for a job well done.\”

 \”This is a story not often heard about Division I athletics and we should all be extremely proud,\” said Husch. \”It is academic results like this that allow us to say with all honesty, ‘We do Division I right’.\”

At Rider, student-athletes are winning on the court, on the field, in the pool, on the track, and most importantly, in the classroom.

source Rider press release

Gloucester County (Old), founded in 1686 and once including within its boundaries the present Atlantic and Camden Counties, is unique in that it is an outstanding Agricultural, Industrial and Residential Area. Farming in all of its phases is highly established and developed. The raising of fruit, farm vegetables, and poultry, the dairy industry, the breeding of cattle, hogs, and other livestock, the existence of modern year-round canneries, quick freezing establishments and nearby markets all go far to make Gloucester County one of the chief food producing sections of our State and of our Country.

Hand in hand with agriculture, the County possesses some of the largest industries of the East. Modern plants of small and great proportions steadily employing thousands of our citizens, today are contributing in a major way to the prosperity of our Municipalities, County, State, and Nation.

Such a combination of Agriculture and Industry, together with the location of the County in the Metropolitan area of Philadelphia, was bound to result in thriving residential communities. A fine network of improved State and County Highways, excellent bus service, and generally splendid Municipal Government have contributed to the development of residential communities without comparison in our State. Gloucester County possesses the finest of schools and places of worship, the finest of local and county service of every kind, and is indeed a happy, healthy place for living.

Dotted with woods and beautiful lakes, traversed by beautiful streams, Old Gloucester County possesses a historical background that places it foremost in our Country\’s history. Historical shrines abound throughout the County. Major Revolutionary War Battlegrounds with original trenches and weapons carefully preserved, distinctive and outstanding Early American architecture, exemplified by beautiful old homes of notable Patriots, churches, and public buildings are generously scattered throughout the county and are a constant inspiration to the citizenry.

source Gloucester County Community Information

Gloucester County Historical Sites

Walter Borton of Pitman has been a fisherman for 12 years. His father taught him how to fish in the ocean surf. But Borton enjoys the challenge of fishing the freshwater lakes near his home.

\”It\’s relaxing, that\’s the biggest thing, and it\’s peaceful,\” said Borton, 35. \”I take my boat out sometimes and all you hear are birds and the wind whistling through the trees. I\’ve went at all times of the day to fish and you\’ll find every lake is unique. The fish feed at different times and you have to experiment with different types of bait to catch them.

\”I got my dad to go lake fishing with me, but he didn\’t see the point because it\’s more to relax than to eat what you catch.\”

But there is one type of freshwater fish that Borton always eats when he catches it – trout. 

source Philadelphia Inquirer read more

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Dog Quote: They have dog food for constipated dogs. If your dog is constipated, why screw up a good thing? Stay indoors and let \’em bloat!
….David Letterman

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Jumping on People By Alan

No matter how much we might enjoy our pet jumping up to greet us, there are many people who dislike having a strange dog coming up and jumping on them. For many people it can be a frightening
experience as not everyone is a dog lover.

Besides that, many people just don\’t want dirty paw marks over their clothing.

It can also create major problems if a large dog were to jump up on a child or an elderly person.

Dogs will generally jump up on people because they are overly excited and pleased to see them – even if that person is a stranger.

Many people inadvertently encourage this behavior by rewarding the dog with attention after the dog has jumped up on them. The dog then seeks similar reward from other people whether they like it or
not.

This is detrimental to the proper training of the dog and all members of the family must realize that they\’re doing more harm than good by encouraging their dog to jump up on people.

Consistency is important in all forms of dog training, where members of the dog\’s family will need to exercise discipline and accept that training will be all the more difficult if the dog
is allowed to continue with this behavior.

Failure to do so will lead to confusion with the pet not knowing what is right or wrong.

An alternative to having your dog jump up on you and other people is to teach it to sit and lift it\’s paw when greeting you for a handshake or similar tricks where the dog will be rewarded with
attention.

Thanks,

Allan
http://AboutDogs.info